ONBOARDING

Your Journey Starts Here!

Our engineers ensure your platform is deployed quickly, accelerating time-to-value, and allow you to benefit from your NetBrain investment as soon as possible.

  • What to expect during onboarding
  • Prepare for your onboarding

Your onboarding includes deployment of the latest NetBrain release, validation that device data collected from your live network in the NetBrain platform is accurate, and collaborate with your network experts to create powerful intent-based automation to help achieve your strategic NetDevOps goals.

System Deployment

Design NetBrain Deployment Architecture
Deploy latest NetBrain Software Release

Network Modeling and Visualization

Discovery of Customer Managed Network Devices
Implement Customized Device Hierarchy and Map Layouts
Maintain and Validate Critical Application and Traffic Paths

Automation Adoption

Develop NetBrain Network Intent Automation
Co-Develop a customized Network Automation Library
Design NetBrain Automation End User Interfaces
Implement key network compliance or assessment automation units

Automation Enhanced Workflows

Enhance existing CI/CD workflows with developed NetBrain Automation
Support customer development and integration with NetBrain RESTAPI
Integration of NetBrain platform with 3rd party network monitoring platforms
Integration of NetBrain platform with ITSMs for CMDB and Incident Enhancement

Training and Enablement

Foundational End User Training
2-Day Automation Power User Training

To ensure the success of your onboarding, please follow the below-required project prerequisites to reduce the engagement timeline and minimize project delay.

Key Resources for Project Success

Designate NetBrain Administrator, End Users, and Power Users.
Identify the following server infrastructure engineers:
• Linux Administrator
• Windows Administrator
Identify engineers that have device access credentials:
• Network Administrator(s)
• Firewall Administrator(s)
• Cloud Infrastructure Team

Virtual Machine Deployment

Prepare to deploy Linux and Windows Virtual Machines. The number of virtual machines
will be decided after the architectural design session with your Jumpstart Engineer.

Network Security

Allocate IP for NetBrain Front Server and confirm connectivity to all network devices. If Jumpbox is required to access your network, prepare Jumpbox credentials for NetBrain to use.

Creating Your NetBrain “Digital Twin”

Prepare or collect network device credentials, API credentials, and SNMP strings. Identify device types in your network that should not be discovered by NetBrain (laptops, printers phones, etc.).   Collect a complete IP list of network devices in your network (Recommended).

Training and Enablement

Identify all team members expected to use NetBrain for onboarding to NetBrain University training platform, NetBrain Customer Portal, and NetBrain Exchange Community.